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Pavel Filonov ’s reflections on the malevolent influence of the city on the life of human beings were always present in his art. They were sometimes expressed in such metaphorical compositions as thi...
This painting belongs to a cycle of approximately twenty-two pictures by Pavel Filonov known as the Chant of the Universal Blooming series. This was the artist’s vision of the restoration of harmony ...
Pavel Filonov regarded himself as a “non-Party Bolshevik” and served on the Military Revolutionary Tribunal in Bessarabia during the Russian Civil War. He was one of the first to understand the trage...
This work is regarded as an unexpected and forced exception in the art of Pavel Filonov. The portrait appears to have been a modello for a large panel decorating the facade of the Sailors Club in Len...
Pavel Filonov never experienced any qualms about simultaneously employing different styles and devices. He often combined abstraction with objectivity, intermingling artistic traditions in correspond...
In the mid-1910s and beyond, Pavel Filonov created several works in parallel to, yet cardinally different from, his Chant of the World Flowering cycle of avant-garde pictures. This image demonstrates...
The evolution of Pavel Filonov ’s perception of the world in the late 1910s and early 1920s led the artist to employ, in the majority of cases, abstract means of expression. As he explained: “Life is...
This work marked a new stage in the creative evolution of Pavel Filonov. In the early 1920s, the master began to employ primarily abstract forms of expression. He sought correspondences between the c...
Pavel Filonov united the concepts of the “seeing eye” and the “knowing eye”, transforming his apparatus of perception into something like an omnipresent eye, which pierces through the outward facades...
Painted in 1915, during the First World War, this work is stylistically similar to two other compositions by Pavel Filonov – Untitled (1917) and Untitled (1919). The German War is also close in its a...